is a masculine Japanese given name.

Orthography Takeru can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: 武, "warrior" 猛, "fierce" 健, "health" 尊, "noble" 岳, "mountain" The name can also be written in hiragana or katakana.

Kanji combinations of the name are: 武尊 武瑠 武流 武琉 武留 丈瑠 丈流 丈琉 丈留 尊瑠 尊流 尊琉 尊留

People , Japanese singer from the rock band Sug , Japanese figure skater , Japanese retired baseball player Takeru Higuchi (1918–1987), American chemist , Japanese manga artist , Japanese professional baseball player , Japanese politician and novelist , Japanese footballer , Japanese professional footballer , Japanese male artistic gymnast , Japanese football player , Japanese former competitive eater , Japanese manga artist , Japanese football player , Japanese snowboarder , Japanese professional baseball pitcher , Japanese actor , Japanese kickboxer , Japanese actor and voice actor , Japanese curler , Japanese former professional Canadian football placekicker , Japanese tennis player Yamato Takeru (タケル), legendary Japanese prince

Fictional characters Takeru (aka RedMask), a character in Hikari Sentai Maskman Takeru (タケル), the main character in the Freedom Project by Nissin Cup Noodles Takeru (猛), secondary character from the visual novel, anime and manga Togainu no Chi Takeru Danma, a character known as "The Hatter" in Alice in Borderland, played by Nobuaki Kaneko Takeru Edogawa, a character in the manga series The Devil Does Exist Takeru Fujiwara, a character from Prince of Stride Takeru Homura, a main character in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS Takeru Ibaraki, a character in the American-Japanese manga Witchblade Takeru Takeru Jakuzure, a character from Garo Takeru Kojo (古城 タケル), a supporting character in Little Battlers Experience WARS Takeru Mizushima (タケル), a character in the Japanese TV drama Last Friends Takeru Ohyama, the main character in the anime and manga series Maken-ki! Takeru Shiba, a character in Samurai Sentai Shinkenger Takeru Shirogane (白銀 武), the main character in the visual novel series Muv-Luv Takeru "T.K." Takaishi (タケル), a character in the anime and manga Digimon Takeru Takemoto (タケル), a character in the anime This Ugly Yet Beautiful World Takeru Teshimine (猛), a character in the anime and manga series GetBackers Takeru Yamato, the main character in the Dragon Knight series of Anime/H-games Takeru Tenkūji, the main character in Kamen Rider Ghost Takeru Tsukumo, a main character in the manga Exoskull Zero Takeru Totsuka, a main character in Kamigami no Asobi

Other uses Takeru: Letter of the Law, an interactive manga Takeru, video game developer and publisher ja:Takeru, software distribution mechanism (sort of 'Copy-on-Demand') by Brother Industries in Japan